
Caroline Blakiston
Acting • Born 1933-02-13
Biography
Caroline Blakiston (born 13 February 1933) is an English actress. Best known for her role in the television comedy series Brass, she has also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science-fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In the 1960s she appeared in three episodes of The Avengers as well a number of ITC productions such as The Saint and the 1969 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "Never Trust a Ghost". She appeared to great acclaim as Marjorie Ferrar in the BBC Television adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967. In 1977 she appeared in Raffles as Lady Paulton, and also in Murder Most English as Helen Carobleat. In 1986 Blakiston played the villain Bess Sedgwick, opposite Joan Hickson's Miss Marple, in "At Bertram's Hotel", made by the BBC and shown on the PBS series Mystery in the U.S. She also appeared as Lionel Hardcastle's ex-wife in an episode of As Time Goes By. She and Geoffrey Palmer (Lionel) had previously played estranged spouses a decade earlier in Carla Lane's series The Last Song.
Filmography
72 credits
Return of the Jedi
Movie • 1983
Mon Mothma

Les Misérables
Movie • 1978
Mme Thénardier

The Fourth Protocol
Movie • 1987
Angela Berenson

The Magic Christian
Movie • 1969
Hon. Esther Grand

Miss A and Miss M
Movie • 1983
Adult Lizzie (Narration)

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie • 1971
Rowing Wife

The Trygon Factor
Movie • 1966
Nun

Coup!
Movie • 2006
Margaret Thatcher

Mary Anning
Movie • 2018
Molly Anning

Scoop
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Quincy

Yanks
Movie • 1979
Golfing friend

The Mallen Secret
Movie • 2008
Anna Bridgmore

The Idol
Movie • 1966
2nd Woman at Party

The Mallen Curse
Movie • 1980
Anna Brigmore

Knots
Movie • 1975
The pianist

Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Movie • 1978
Elena

The Mallen Streak
Movie • 2003

For Elsie
Movie • 2012
Mama Kilov

Life After Death
Movie • 1982
Josie

The Lie
Movie • 1970
Esther

The Mallens
Movie • 1979
Anna Brigmore

Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Movie • 1978
Narrator

The Last Romantic
Movie • 1978
Emily

For King and Country: Out There
Movie • 1963
Nurse

Second Childhood
Movie • 1966
Dr. Odile Keppler

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Angela Hartley

Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Dr. Rachel Vine

Department S
TV • 1969
Kate Mortimer

The Avengers
TV • 1961
Cynthia Wentworth-Howe

Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Hildy Dressler

Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Dowager Duchess

The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Hildegarde

The Saint
TV • 1962
Eleanor Bastion

Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Miss Hemmingway

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
TV • 1989

Shadows of Fear
TV • 1970
Maureen

The Champions
TV • 1968
Marion Grant

Rides
TV • 1992

Brass
TV • 1983
Lady Patience Hardacre

Emergency: Ward 10
TV • 1957

The Caesars
TV • 1968
Agrippina

The Last Song
TV • 1981

City Beneath the Sea
TV • 1962

Sunburn
TV • 1999
Mrs. Armitage

Father Brown
TV • 2013
Lady Lavinia Pryde

Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Elena

The Line of Beauty
TV • 2006
Lady Partridge

Charters and Caldicott
TV • 1985
Margaret Mottram

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
TV • 1987
Bess Sedgwick

Play for Today
TV • 1970
Esther

Play for Today
TV • 1970
Josie

Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Julia Carstairs

Raffles
TV • 1977
Lady Paulton

The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Matilda Boff

As Time Goes By
TV • 1992
Margaret

Mulberry
TV • 1992
Adele

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Hilary Compton

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Sylvia Lennard

Poldark
TV • 2015
Aunt Agatha

Strange Report
TV • 1969
Louise

Story Parade
TV • 1964
W.P.C. Anne Cunningham

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
TV • 1984
Co-Ordinator

Wilde Alliance
TV • 1978
Elena

Harry
TV • 1993
Natasha Lee

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1994
Dowager Duchess

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
TV • 1977
Mrs Helen Carobleat

The Mallens
TV • 1979
Anna Brigmore

Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Countess

Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
Dr. Odile Keppler

Shoestring
TV • 1979
Monica

Children of the New Forest
TV • 1998
Aunt Judith

The Grand
TV • 1997
Isobel Crawford